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10 Pesos 29th. Summer Olympic Games 2008
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Engraver(s) | Charles Edward Barber |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the Cuban national coat of arms at center, featuring a shield divided into three sections: the upper portion depicts a rising sun over a sea between two headlands with a golden key symbolizing Cuba's strategic position; the lower left section bears a blue-and-white striped field; and the lower right section displays a royal palm tree. The shield is surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a fasces, symbolizing liberty and strength, and is flanked by an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right, tied at the base. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper rim, while the denomination 10 PESOS appears in large numerals along the lower field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Cuba's Olympic commemorative program was one of the more prolific in the Western Hemisphere during the 2000s, with Havana issuing collector series well ahead of each Games cycle. This piece predates the Beijing Olympics by two years — standard practice for the Cuban mint, which timed releases to maximize foreign collector sales rather than domestic circulation, where hard currency coins were functionally invisible to most Cubans under the dual-currency system that separated the convertible peso from everyday life.